330 



INDEX. 



Bones, state in wliicli they should be, 

 166 

 when burnt and boiled more 

 productive than when fresh, 

 164, 190 

 Book-keeping, labour of, how di- 

 minished, 325 

 Boxes for feeding, description of, 21 

 Box-feeding, advantage of, 21, 312 

 Breaking up land, expense of, 271 

 experiments in, 2G1 

 practice of, 25!) 

 safest plan for, 2G4 

 Breeders, proper food for, and treat- 

 ment of, 8 

 Bruce's (Mr.) experiments, 55 

 Bull, value of a first-rate, 1 3 

 Burning and paring sward-land, re- 

 sults from, 2G1, 270 

 when and how to be done, 271 



Cabbages, effects of guano on, 196, 

 197 

 the best food for lambs, 54 

 Calves, food for, 13, 14 



how forced when weaned, 15 

 time for dropping, 13, 14 

 Capillaiy powers of vegetation, 108 

 Capital, the best use of, 228 

 Carbonate of lime, quantity in four 



bushels of bones, 169 

 Carbonic acid, when useful, 139 

 Carboniferous formations, character 



of, 322 

 Carbon, quantity of, in various sods, 



199 

 Carrots, growth of, on chalk and 

 clay farms, 225 

 harvesting of, 293 

 hoeing of, 240 

 leaves, how disposed of, 294 

 root -fibres not to be cut off, 



294 

 rottenness, where it commences, 



294 

 storing of, 241 

 Carry-drains must not be run along 



headlands, 101 

 Carse of Gowrie, state of land on, 



155 

 Case of James O'Ned, 30 

 " Cattle Compound," method of 

 making, 22 

 superiority of, to foreign oil- 

 cake, 24 



Cattle, different forms of matter in, 

 39 

 food and general management 



of, 7 

 food to be increased as preg- 

 nancy advances, 8 

 feeding on boards, benefits from, 



221 

 on the rearing of, 6, 12 

 sheds and folds for, 35 

 winter and summer feed for, 



309 

 winter treatment of, 15 

 Cattle-sheds, cost of, 38 



materials for constructing, 35 

 paper for roofing of, 37 

 specification for construction of, 



36 

 where to be constructed, 36 

 Cess-pools convenient breaks in lines 

 of drains, 95 

 how constructed, 96 

 Charcoal, produce of turnips from 

 the use of, 198 

 use of, as a fertihzer, 197 

 value of, in various ways, 199 

 Charred-peat, how prepared, 198 

 Chalk and clay farms, growth of 



peas, beans, &c. on, 225 

 Chalk -formations, character of, 321 

 Chalk-sod, experiment on, 149 

 Chemical examination of food, 20 

 Chemist, expedient of a, 154 

 Chemistry, value of, 133 

 Chevalier-barley, experiment on, 1 SO 

 Chloride of lime, use of, with milk, 



221 

 Churning, when carried on, 68 

 Clay-lands, improvements in, 230 



how secured, 232 

 Clover, causes of the failure of, 275- 

 280, 285 

 on the cultivation of, 275, 287 

 practice of sprinkling it with 

 gypsum, 157 

 Cold, how produced, 99 

 Common drains, how made, 112 



intervals of, 113 

 Continent, mode of applying gyp 



sum on the, 157 

 Corn-bruiser, use of the, 68 

 Corn-crops must not be manured, 



219 

 Corn-measure, to what applicable, 

 250 



